Propemptikon Pollionis

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…is credited with having written Propemptikon Pollionis, a poem in the form of a send-off to his friend Asinius Pollio. In both these poems, his model appears to have been Parthenius of Nicaea, the Greek poet and teacher of Virgil; Cinna apparently met Parthenius while serving in Bithynia in 66…